The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.

As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Who loves his pain denies his god.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.